- 1951 María Montez [Vidal], Dominican actress known as The Queen of Technicolor (Cobra Woman, Arabian Nights), dies of heart seizure at 39
- 1965 Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
- 1966 Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
- 1971 Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
- 1991 Ben Piazza, American actor (Santa Barbara; The Blues Brothers; Dallas), dies of cancer at 58
- 1992 Henry Ephron, American screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
- 1994 Dennis Morgan [Stanley], American actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 85
- 1994 Godfrey Quigley, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita, Rooney), dies at 71
- 1994 Terence Young, British film director (Dr No, Thunderball), dies of at 79
- 1997 Alex Macintosh, British BBC presenter and actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
- 2001 Spede Pasanen, Finnish film director and comedian, dies at 71
- 2001 Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2002 Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
- 2005 Hope Garber, Canadian actress, dies at 81
- 2006 Julien Schoenaerts, Flemish actor (Daens/Medea), dies at 81
- 2006 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (The Sting, Witness, Sleepaway Camp), dies of natural causes at 96
- 2008 Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
- 2008 Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
- 2010 Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)
- 2015 Dickie Moore, American actor (Oliver Twist, Little Men), dies at 89